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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
Ashley Montagu
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Ashley Montagu
Age: 94 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 28
Died: 1999
Died: November 16
Anthropologist
University Teacher
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley Montagu
Israel Ehrenberg
M. F. Ashley-Montague
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The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
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The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
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